Box construction.



H. W. HILDEBRAND, JR. BOX CONSTRUCTION. APPLIOATION FILED my 25, 1909.

Patented Jam 4, 1910.

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BOX CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 4, 1910.

Application filed May 25, 1909. Serial No. 498,228.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. Hmon- BRAND, J r., a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing in the city and county of Denver and Stateof Colorado, have invented a new and useful Box Construction, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the art of making boxes, andrelates in particular to the construction of cigar boxes as a newarticle of manufacture, and the objects of my invention are: First, toprovide as a new article of manufacture a cigar box that can bemanufactured much cheaper than the all-cedar cigar boxes now used, andthat will be as well adapted to pack and ship and keep cigars in asall-cedar or imitation cedar wood boxes. Second, to provide a box madewholly of compressed paper-board, and that is constructed with sides andends and bottom portions formed of one piece of such board or othersuitable like material. I attain these objects by the mechanismillustrated in the accompany drawings, in which:

Figure 1, is a view of the blank, from which an all-paper box isconstructed. Fig. 2, is a perspective view of a box formed from theblank shown in Fi 1, showing the corner edges united by suitable clipsor fasteners, and a strip of wood inserted in a recess in the front sidethereof for the reception of the lid-securing nails. Fig. 3, is an edgeview of a fragment of the front side of the box, showing the recess forthe reception of the said wooden strip. Fig. 4, is an edge view of thesaid strip. Fig. 5, is a view of a blank from which an incomplete box isconstructed, having a bottom, the ends, and one side, the remainin sidebeing of other material, and being a apted to be secured in position tocomplete the box. Fig. 6, shows a blank from which the bottom and endsof the box are formed, the sides being separate and adapted to besecured thereto. Fig. 7, is a sectional view through a box having itsbottom, ends and rear side formed of compressed paper-board, while thefront side is of wood, a lid of compressed paperboard being hinged tosaid box. And Fig. 8, is a similar sectional view showing a box havingboth sides formed of wood.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1, designates the bottom of a boxadapted to hold cigars or other merchandise; 2 designates the oppositeends thereof; 3 designates the opposite sides; and 4 designates thecover. These several parts are made of compressed or any other kind ofpaper-board. The bottom and sides and ends are preferably made of onepiece of material, which is in the form of a blank of the outline shownin Fig. 1, in which the ends and sides are cut to fold up at rightangles to the bottom along the dotted lines (5, in such a manner thatwhen they are folded the corners will overlap each other and fit snuglytogether. These corners are then secured together by corner clips 7which may be of any suitable type. The flaps 2 of the blank, which formthe ends when bent up, extend slightly beyond the lines upon which thesides are folded, and slits 6 are cut from the folding lines 6 to theouter edges of the flaps. The side flaps 5 are first folded, and whenthe ends are folded up against them, they overlap the adjacent edges ofthe sides, as shown in Fig. 2. a

The cover is secured to the rear side of the box by a suitable pliablefabric hinge 8, which is secured to the inside portion of the cover, andalso of the side. This cover is preferably formed to extend between theends and over the opposite sides of the box, even with their outsidesurfaces.

In the matter of cigar boxes, it is customary to secure the free sideedge of the cover to the top edge of the adjacent side, and while thecompressed paper-board will hold a. nail driven in it parallel with thelaminated layers of the material of which it is composed, it does nothold as firmly as when driven transversely through it. Therefore, Ipreferably provide the center portion of the side of the box with adenser or a better nail holding materialthan the paper board afi'ords.This nail holding material may be secured to the side of the box in anysuitable manner, to receive one or more nails from the cover, but Ipreferably accomplish this by cutting a recess 9 in the center ofthe'side from its top edge down a distance greater than the length ofthe nail to be used, and a strip of suitable material 10, such as wood,and preferably cedar wood, is inserted in the recess and is securedthere by any suitable means, preferably by forming V shaped grooves 11,in the edges of the said strip, which are adapted to inclose the sideand bottom edges of the recess 9, which edges are correspondinglytapered, as shown at 12, and

the strip is glued or otherwise secured to the edge of the box, andreceives the nails with which the cover is secured to the box.

In Fig. 5, I illustrate a modification in the construction of the blankshown in Fig. 1 in which one of the side flaps 3 is omitted, so thatwhen the parts are folded, they form a structure having a bottom andends and only one side. The bottom and the two opposite ends are formedof one piece of material, the ends being folded and secured by clips tothe side, as in Fig. 2. A cedar or other suit able wooden side strip 13is then placed between the ends of the box and secured to "the ends andbottom by nails. The cigar box is then composed of a bottom and endportions, a cover and one side of compressed paperboard, andone side ofcedar or other suitable wood. The cedar side makes a box in combinationwith the paper-board at the corners, that has the natural cedar woododor, but on account of its bottom and ends and cover portion beingconstructed in a special way and of a special material, it Will not costnearly as much to manufacture as allcedar or imitation cedar cigar boxesdo, and when the front side is made of wood, an ample nailing surface isafforded for securing the lid.

If desired, both side strips may be made of wood, as shown at 14, Fig.8, which would insure the natural cedar odor or bouquet which somemanufacturers consider desirable, while providing as a new article ofmanufacture a cigar box of paper that could be manufactured at lessexpense than cedar or imitationcedar Wood boxes can.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is:

1. A cigar box constructed of paper material, and having its bottom andends and side out from a sheet of paper-board such as jute clothpaper-board or any other compressed paper-board having tensile strengthof wood, lined or painted on each side to imitate the natural wood, insuch a manner that they will fold to register against each other and tostand at right angles to the bottom portion of said box, means includingcorner clips for securing said sides and ends together, a cover ofpaper-board secured to one of said sides by a flexible hinge, and meansincluding a piece of nail holding ma- 'teria'l secured to the oppositeside for secur- "tegral bottom and end and side pieces cut from andformed of a sheet of compressed paperboard, said ends and sides being socut as to be folded and pressed to overlap together to stand at rightangles to said bottom portion, means including corner fasteners forsecuring said ends and sides to gether, a cover for saidends and sidesand bottom portion, comprising a piece of compressed paper-board securedto one of said sides by a fabric form of hinge secured partially to saidcover and partially to one of said sides, a recess in the opposite sideand a piece of cedar or other wood secured into said recess and arrangedeven with said side.

3. A box of the character described, comprising a compressed paper blankof suitable dimensions, which is adapted to be folded to form a boxhaving ends which overlap the edges of the sides and extend above thesame; the front of said box having a recess extending in from its upperedge; a wood strip adapted to be secured in said recess; and acompressed paper cover hinged to the rear side of said box, and adaptedto be secured by nails to said wood strip.

a. A box constructed of, a compressed paper, which is folded to presentintegral sides and ends; clips for securing said sides and ends; a woodstrip having grooves in its bottom and ends, which is adapted to fitinto a recess in the front side of said box, the edges of said recessbeing beveled to correspond to the grooves in said strip; and a lidhinged to the rear side of said box, which is adapted to be secured bynails to said wood strip.

5. A box comprising a body having a side wall of compressed sheetmaterial, said wall being formed at its top witha recess having

